CU Athletic Hall of Fame
- Induction:
- 2012
- Class:
- 1974
- 1971, '73 NCAA Ski Jumping Champion
- Three-Time First Team All-American
- Three-Time RMISA Champion
- 1973 Dick Schoenberger Award, CU's Most Outstanding Overall Skiier
A key performer in CU’s run to eight straight national titles (the front end, 1971-74) ... Considered a huge star of his day in the most electrifying discipline, jumping (now a defunct college event because of its dangers) ... A three-time, first-team All-American, he was the 1971 and 1973 NCAA champion in jumping (one of just a handful of skiers in history to win an individual title in their first NCAA event); he was second in ’74 and fourth in ‘72 ... A three-time Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association champion (with a runner-up finish in a fourth meet) and a four-time member of the All-RMISA Jumping Team ... In his career, he had eight wins along with four runner-up finishes, never finishing out of the top four in four years of ski jumping ... He won the team’s Dick Schoenberger Award as a junior as CU’s most outstanding overall skier ... An engineering major, he earned a prestigious NCAA postgraduate scholarship ... He returned to his native Norway in 1976 where with his Master’s degree in hand from CU, his first job was in Oslo as a researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Water Research (NIVA); he also raced in the A-class (best qualified jumpers) in 1976-77, and his skiing career ended in 1979 in Norway's B-class, where 150 jumpers entered the Nationals mainly for fun ... In the fall of 1977, he moved his family to Hamar (north of Oslo) and started as employee/consultant with Norconsult, the same firm he continues to work for today ... In 1985, he moved to the interior of Tanzania, where he was a project coordinator for the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (he headed the Water and Sanitation Development for the Rukwa Region program for two years in a remote region of Tanzania) ... In 1990, he began a five-year stint as a manager with the Lillehammer Olympic Organizing Committee, preparing for construction of the sites - specially all the ski venues - and preparing for all the installations and equipment that each site needed for the ’94 Winter Olympics (he was responsible for programming, design and project plans, procurement and project control of the facilities needed at the sport venues) ... He then returned to Norconsult, the largest Norwegian consulting and design firm with more than 2,000 employees.
